Saturday, February 27, 2016

no Fallout 4 session today. Instead I supported my wife who is suffering from back pain. But on Sunday morning ......
Reading progress did not work as wished. I was just too tired in the evening.
It seems I have to start to think about to buy a new e-book reader because my Sony PRS-T1 shows more and more problems. The only thing I know is that the device must work with EPUB and I want physical buttons for page forward and backward.
The highlight of the week has been our evening in the cinema when we enjoyed every minute of DEADPOOL.

ENJOY READING ....

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The Lighthouse
I finished no book last week. But I put my nose in some books from my list.

I finished

- no book

I'm

- 168 pages in Betrayal's Shadow (digital, 30th November 2015) [Kindle Edition ASIN:B018S2U4Z2] by Dave-Brendon de Burgh which is the first book in the Mahaelian Chronicle.
Only a small progress

- 112 pages in A Fever of the Blood (digital, February 2016) [Kindle edition ASIN: B00NPIUILA] by Oscar de Muriel.
I like that the story reveals more about Nine-Nails McGray.

- 127 pages in Dockyard Dog (digital, 1st February 2016) [Kindle edition ASIN: B00NPIUILA] by Lyle Garford which is the first book in the Evan Ross series.
So far I can tell that most of the action does not take place on water. But that is nothing negative because the reader gets instead information about slavery and Royal Navy behaviour in foreign countries.

- 161 pages in The Guns of Ivrea (digital, 9th February 2016) [Kindle Edition ASIN:B0193FBVR8] by Clifford Beal.
I like the characters and how the story develops.

Enjoy your weekend ....

Books

Dear readers, I'm the one to tell you
about books - only books?
What about novellas and other
stuff? My name is Bona.
I scour shelves, shops
and the net for books. If you call
me a book whore I
would not gainsay you. But be aware I
have my own, sometimes elusive
taste.New books on my shelf/reader or when one book leads to another

Last week I bought only one digital copy. But it is a special one because this time my wife AND I will read the book. There are not so many books we read both. Will be interesting to discuss about the book.

The Anthrax Protocol (digital, 23rd February 2016) [Kindle Edition ASIN:B00Y6RB1U6] by James Thompson.

"It Kills Slowly…

In an excavation site in Mexico, a team of archeologists uncovers the lost tomb of Montezuma--and a deadly strain of anthrax as ancient as the Biblical plagues. One by one, the team falls violently ill, bleeding from their eyes and ears before succumbing to a slow, painful death. Whatever was buried with the Aztec chief is still active, infectious--and now airborne…

It Spreads Quickly…

In Austin, a young archeologist listens to the dying words of her mentor in Mexico--a warning to quarantine the site before all hell breaks loose. In Atlanta, the CDC's Dr. Mason Williams leads an emergency squad on a life-or-death mission--into the hot zone. At Fort Detrick, an army officer sends a trained team to secure the anthrax--as a biological weapon. But time is running out. The disease is spreading rapidly across the border, into the airports, and across the globe, killing thousands. With no cure, no vaccine, and no way to contain it, there will be no hope for humanity--to survive…" [Source]

No more today, see you next week ......

Blogosphere

Hey,
I'm Bona Fide. I just
came back from my last foray through the
blogosphere. What can you
expect from me? I tell you: Everything
from Art to Fart as long as there
is any faint connection to books. And
here is some honey from the
beehive blogosphere...

Victorian party entertainment
I still remember some birthday parties of my daughter when tons of toilet paper rolls caused a lot of fun. The children played game we called "mummy roll". In Victorian era they did it the other way round which you can read over at Atlas Obscura.

Hey, it's me Fide.
I'm a remote control professional.
I'm that fast that I can
watch two movies at the same time.

SIGGRAPH 2016
SIGGRAPH means Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques. The 2016 festival is ahead and in order to encourage submissions a retrospective trailer has been put together and I want to share this video with you. I was surprised how many entries I could identify.

That's it for today. Come back
next week for more ......

QuotesI
'm the Keeper of
the minutes. But I don't mind when
you call me Kotm. No, no. I
don't explain to you how to pronounce.

I know young people who think it is impossible to survive without a smart phone. I say it is possible. I do not own a private one. But I have to use a company phone .........

"I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.”

I'd like to argue with Alex. You would better, if you buy an e-ink ebook reader, because it's much better to eyes. An iPad not a bad thing, but it can be use other things also, which will have been steal your reading time.

Unfortunately the Kindle devices doesn't support the .epub format and the new version lost their physical buttons too. I have an older model, but I love it.